Hi Scott, Its been my longtime dream to work in Electronics Engineering - more specifically, design integrated circuits for Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Le

Hi Scott, Its been my longtime dream to work in Electronics Engineering - more specifically, design integrated circuits for Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning applications. I read about FPGA's a lot and love the concept of Reconfigurable Computing. Its because of my love for FPGA's I want to carve out a career in VLSI. Right now, I work in Enterprise Software (BMC Software - as a Support Engineer and in administrator role). I tried to get a job in VLSI after attending a 6 month finishing school from CDAC, but no luck. However, I still dream of getting an opportunity in companies like Intel/ Xilinx and being able to develop some FPGA based solutions for AI/ ML. In the next 18 months, I see myself getting my Canada PR and searching for a job there. My current job requires me to be in touch with Java and Java related frameworks to a very small extent (primarily for reading logs, and our development platform is build up on Eclipse.) I am hoping to get a job in Canada based on these skillsets. What do you reckon is the future of the hardware industry? I heard there's a lot of scarcity of jobs there? Or should I stick to Enterprise Software? Honestly need your opinion here. Thanks in advance, and great job taking up this AMA !! :)